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Episode 185 – Redefining Project Success through Sustainable Project Management

Velociteach

Projects are instrumental in defining an organization’s vision for a more sustainable future. Dr. Joel Carboni talks about Sustainable Project Management, and the goal to achieve a stated objective while considering the project outcome’s entire lifecycle to ensure a net positive environmental, social, and economic impact.

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In-Depth: The Science On Sustainable Pace, Stress, And Motivation

Scrum.org

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? What is a sustainable pace? The notion of “sustainable pace” is closely tied to Extreme Programming practices. But that recommendation was updated to “sustainable pace” by Ron Jeffries later. Pace should be sustainable over a long time. .

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Top 10 Challenges Faced by Scrum Masters and Ways to Overcome them

Scrum.org

Difficulty in sustaining the Time-Box. The Scrum Master is always the one to keep a keen watch on sustaining the timeboxed activities. Recommended Antidote : Always sustain clarity on each event’s agenda, explain the importance of timeboxing to everyone on the team. So without wasting any more time, let’s dive into the topic.

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Unlocking the Power of Systems Thinking: How to Design High-Performing Systems That Delight Customers

Scrum.org

For example, the sales department closes sales contracts to meet its targets. In doing so it closes more sales contracts than the development unit can deliver. This in turn makes the development unit deliver late, and customer confidence drops which in turn makes it harder for the sales to close new contracts.

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Value Creation in Scrum: Shift Left

Scrum.org

As we work in iterations, we probably do that several times per month, mitigating risk by closing feedback loops. Your Product Owner invests in user research; however, they manage to select a non-representative target group among your customers. As a tactical framework, Scrum is good at delivering Increments into customers’ hands.

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How To Lead Scrum Masters With Liberating Structures?

Scrum.org

For about one hour we talked about how to be a servant leader for such a group of Scrum Masters. Liberating Structures Liberating Structures are a collection of 30+ interaction patterns that unflatten, enrich, and deepen interactions in groups. How to grow a self-sustaining community of Scrum Masters? Social Network Webbing.

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Building blocks of the next generation of Organisations

Scrum.org

Not all groups have the authority to consider customers. Customers will become a direct extension of your business by working more closely with your teams; if engaged, they will stick around. Having devoted communities aid in the organisation's ability to conduct its business, sustain itself, and produce excellent results.

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